I Got That One!

We're back! This can only mean that University Challenge is back for another season of hard questions and unlikely personalities. We start strong in the personality department with King's College London and a captain destined for a career in Radio versus Glasgow, wielding some intense goth vibes. With questions about monkeys, 20th-century art movements and some rather shaky understanding of  English geography, it's good to be back!

Music is the Brandenburg Concerto no. 3, provided for free from https://www.chosic.com.

The season is over and done with, but there is still some University Challenge goodness for you to enjoy. We had a lovely chaotic chat with the team from the University of Durham, which you should really listen to because they are such a lovely bunch. Thank you to Holly, Tom, Tom and Harry for taking the time to talk to us!

The moment we have all been waiting for, and what a show it was! Well done to Warwick for picking up their second-ever title of University Challenge champion, and well done to Magdalene for putting up an amazing performance. Join us for our usual gander through our favourite questions, some impressive stats and the ever-popular best-dressed segment, as well as a small glimpse of what to expect now that the season is over.

Well, that was quite the match, wasn't it? We certainly were not expecting such a disparate final score, but as Paxman said, this was not a fair representation of Balliol's fantastic run through this season of University Challenge. Having said that, Lawson, Davies, Byrne and Payne have really stepped up their game and are looking like Warwick will have their work cut out for them in the final!

Join us as we say goodbye to Balliol and O'Connor's eclectic dress sense, commend Magdalene's inspiring form, and marvel at how both teams manage to get so many answers correct.

We finally say goodbye to Imperial, who have managed to stay in the competition against the odds and currently have the most points accumulated of any team. After this match, it is hard to imagine anything other than a win for Warwick, who last took the title all the way back in 2007. So long as Rout can remember his teammate's names, they look to be serious contenders for the final, and either Balliol or Magdalene have their work cut out!

The quarter-finals have come to a close, and with it, we say goodbye to the last Scottish University still in the competition.  However, they did not leave without putting up a fight, and for a while, it looked like they were going to send Magdalene College home. If this is a sign of things to come, we are going to have very entertaining semi-final matches!

It appears as though we have yet to see Imperial in their final form! They are going from strength to strength, significantly building on their initial performance all those months ago. Sadly, this means that we have to say goodbye to Durham and their heartwarming camaraderie, but they gave an outstanding performance this match, really making Kohn and co. work for their place in the Semi-finals. Also, the wardrobe of the teams really wowed us this episode.

The time has come to say goodbye to yet another team in University Challenge. This time, the curtain falls on Birkbeck University, one of the highest scoring teams this series. Kudos to Strathclyde for another strong performance, particularly on starter questions. Listen to our thoughts on how Strathclyde could fare against Magdalene, Cambridge in their next outing, as well as some of our favourite questions on tennis championships, the French Revolutionary Calendar and Cole Porter. Stay tuned till the end for a woolly best-dressed.

This week sees our second confirmed team heading to the semi-finals. Balliol College, Oxford joins Warwick in what is shaping up to be a nail-biting conclusion to Series 50 of University Challenge. Balliol's contender this week, Durham, will have one final chance to secure their place in the semis. That said, this week brought the laughs and the quoteworthy moments this hoary old show is so beloved for. Stay tuned till the end for our famed best-dressed segment!

We're hurtling towards the semi-finals and eventually the final of season 50 of University Challenge. Last week we saw our first confirmed team, this week our first confirmed departure. Whilst King's has been consistent and strong until this point, Imperial are on fire and prove that their defeat against Warwick does not put them out of the count. This was one hell of a match, and even though we have to say goodbye to King's, it cannot be overstated how much fun it was to see both teams progress through the competition.